Unit Goals Grammar Vocabulary
UNIT Discuss reasons for living Present perfect tense vs. present
People and Places Page 2
1 where you do
Explain why you plan stay
or leave
Describe a new place
Describe the city where
you live
UNIT The Mind Page 14
Talk about learning
2 strategies
Talk about your senses
Talk about your fears
Describe an emotional
experience
UNIT
Changing Planet Page 26
Suggest solutions to
3 environmental problems
Discuss causes and effects
Talk about invasive species
Discuss effects on the future
Video Page 38 Paul Nicklen: Tales of Ice-bound Wonderlands
UNIT
Money vs. Wealth Page 42 Describe your financial
4 habits
Discuss things that people
value
Talk about banking
Talk about different types
of wealth
UNIT Talk about emergency
Survival Page 54
5 situations
Evaluate survival methods
Describe how animals
survive
Write a Brochure
UNIT Art Page 66 Report what another person
6 said
Express your opinions
about a piece of art
Describe your favorite
artists and their art
Talk about public art
Video Page 78 Amit Sood: Building a Museum of Museums on the Web
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Migration
continuous tense Climate
She has moved three times
in her life.
Its been raining all day.
So + adjective + that
Its so dry here that water is
brought in on trucks.
Gerunds as subjects and after Thought processes
prepositions Scientific studies
Learning English is important.
We talked about studying together.
May, might, and could for possibility
We may find dangerous animals in
the jungle.
The passiveall tenses Environmental changes
Often, trees are removed to make Large numbers
room for farming.
The past perfect
By the time sea level had risen
ten feet
Gerund vs. infinitive Money transactions
I try to make a budget. / I enjoy Banking
finding bargains.
Review of the passive voice
Coffee is grown in Brazil.
That movie was made by
two teenagers.
Unreal conditional in the present Survival skills
If they werent inside the shelter, Environmental
they would quickly die. conservation
Wish in the present
I wish I had brought a good book
to read in the shelter.
Reported speech Art
She said she was tired and her Art materials
head hurt.
Subject adjective clauses
An artist who works with clay
has strong hands.
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 Speaking and National Geographic
Listening Reading Writing Video Journal
Pronunciation Video Journal
Focused listening Discussing reasons for National Geographic: Writing a paragraph National Geographic:
Interviews about why staying or moving Pioneers of the Pacific about a city San Franciscos Mission
people live where Contractions with have District
they do and be

Listening for general Talking about sensations National Geographic: Writing about a National Geographic:
understanding and specific Th sounds In Your Face personal experience Memory Man
information
A radio program about
the unusual condition
of synesthesia

General and focused Discussing cause and Writing a news article National Geographic:
listening effect The Netherlands: Rising
Salvation (and Profit)
Climate change Linking words together in Greentech Water

General and focused
listening
Radio program:
The history of money
Giving suggestions for how Writing a paragraph National Geographic:
to have fun for free about valued things Making a Deal
Music is Medicine, Music
Reduction of to is Sanity

Listening for general
understanding
A radio program
interviewing survivors
Simulation: National Geographic: Writing an advertising National Geographic:
working with a team in a Survival School brochure Andean Weavers
survival situation
Reduced sounds:
dya and didja

Listening for general Discussing personal National Geographic: Writing a detailed National Geographic:
understanding selections Saving a Citys description Faces of India
Conversations in a museum Thought groups Public Art

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 Unit Goals
UNIT
Getting Around Page 82
Talk about new
7 developments
Discuss choices in
transportation
Use English to get around
Make recommendations for
improving transportation
UNIT Talk about sports
Competition Page 94
8 Explain which sport is best
for you
Talk about positive and
negative aspects of
competition
Discuss competitive
advantages
UNIT
Danger Page 106
Discuss ways to stay safe
9 Talk about dangerous work
Discuss personal
emergencies
Discuss dangerous
situations
Video Page 118 Mark Bezos: A Life Lesson from a Volunteer Firefighter
UNIT Speculate about mysteries
Mysteries Page 122
10 Discuss types of mysteries
Talk about plans you used
to have
Explain a mysterious image
UNIT Talk about educational
Learning Page 134
11 choices
Discuss your learning style
Talk about choosing a
university major
Propose a new approach to
teaching
UNIT Space Page 146
Talk about the future
12 Talk about life in space
Speculate about the future
Summarize a sequence
of events
Video Page 158 Bill Stone: I'm Going to the Moon. Who's with Me?
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Grammar Vocabulary
Passive voice with the present Modern transportation
continuous and present perfect tenses Public transportation
The new plane is being tested
now. /Computers have been used
for more than 50 years.
Indirect questions
Do you know if the bus stops here?
Negative questions Sportsmanship
Dont you want to go downtown Sports
with us?
Adjective clauses with object
pronouns
The medal that he won was made
of gold.
Tag questions Dangerous things
Those spiders are poisonous, Expressions for
arent they? emergencies
Adverbial clauses of time
I finished my project before
I went home.
Modals for speculating about the past Ancient mysteries
He might have seen a large fish Reactions to surprise
instead of a sea monster.
The future in the past
The two sisters were going to have
a picnic by the lake.
Should have, Would have, Could have Education
I should have applied for a University majors
scholarship.
Noun clauses
I dont know when the
deadline is.
Talking about the future Space exploration
Space exploration will/is going to Future time expressions
be even more international in
the future.
Modals and modal-like phrases to talk
about the future
Well be able to see it from here.
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 Speaking and National Geographic
Listening Reading Writing Video Journal
Pronunciation Video Journal
Focused listening Role-play: National Geographic: Writing a letter to the National Geographic:
A discussion: solving an airport problem The Rickshaws of Kolkata editor of a newspaper Big City Bicycle Messengers
Subway systems Reduced are

Listening for general Matching sports to National Geographic: Writing a list of National Geographic:
understanding and specific personalities In Sports, Red is the competition tips Women in The Rodeo
information Intonation to show surprise Winning Color
Sports interviews

Focused and general Role-play: Writing about National Geographic:

listening a newspaper interview emergency preparations Destroyers
Three Things I Learned
Radio program: Intonation of tag questions While My Plane Crashed
An unusual job

Listening for general Discussing different types National Geographic: Writing a comparison National Geographic:
understanding of mysteries Hands Across Time Crop Circles
Interview of sea monster Intonation: Finished and
expert unfinished ideas

Listening for general Discussing quiz results Writing about new National Geographic:
understanding Past modals approaches to teaching Butler School
Five Dangerous Things
Learning experiences (You Should Let Your
Children Do)

General and focused Role-play: National Geographic: Writing about space National Geographic:
listening Choosing a space The Hubble Space exploration Daring Mighty Things:
Interview of an astronaut experiment Telescope Curiosity Lands on Mars
Stress in compound nouns

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